Guide to Alternative Health Plan Design
Countless employers aren’t familiar with alternative health plan design options. I’m writing to make sure you’re not one of them moving forward.
- Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
- Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs)
- Medical Expense Reimbursement Plans (MERPs)
- Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangements (QSEHRAs)
- Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs)
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The State of Clinical Reimbursement
As a SNF provider, you are constantly forced to take on new and evolving reimbursement challenges. Today that means facing obstacles which include PDPM rate adjustments, Managed Care growth, turnover and resource strains that directly impact reimbursement. With the industry changing so rapidly, understanding the trends within clinical reimbursement is more critical now than ever.
Download this report to get the perspective of nearly 500 industry professionals, who shared their top clinical reimbursement concerns, trends and offered insights into the strategies they plan to pursue moving forward.
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RESILIENCE Reflections on a Global Pandemic from the
Eyes of An Occupational Therapist
re·sil·ience: n. the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to
external and internal demands. A number of factors contribute to how well people adapt to adversities, predominant among them (a) the ways in which
individuals view and engage with the world, (b) the availability and quality of social resources, and (c) specific coping strategies.
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Special Savings from Value First!
Germ free is the way to be - save on COVID related costs!
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CISA Top Five Vulnerabilities in Patient Devices
Since 2021 there has been a 44% rise in healthcare data breaches, 75% of those breaches were hospitals. This month the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a medical device advisory outlining five vulnerabilities found in Contec Health’s CMS8000 CONTEC ICU CCU Vital Signs Patient Monitor. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow threat actors to execute distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, modify firmware, make configuration changes, or access a root shell.
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Strengthen Your Community with Integrated Facilities Management
Senior living providers are tasked with meeting budget targets and generating greater value from their resources, even as labor and supply challenges increase. Sodexo Seniors’ integrated facilities management program can help senior communities achieve these goals, while consolidating services and costs to create a well-established partnership.
The International Facility Management Association predicts there will be 50,000 to 100,000 facility management positions open over the next five to 10 years, which makes having an experienced partner even more critical. A partner like Sodexo Seniors can help you deliver elevated resident, employee, and guest satisfaction—plus greater cost efficiencies that set you apart from your competition and open new doors of possibility.
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The Smart Way to Appeal a Foolish Fair Hearing Decision
We’ve all read Fair Hearing Decisions and wondered whether the Administrative Law Judge and Commissioner’s Designee deciding the hearing actually knows the law. I recently had a decision come across my desk where the Department of Health concluded that the skilled nursing facility had no standing to file an application on behalf of a deceased resident. I imagine that when we had this foolishness reversed, the Commissioner’s Designee who signed off on the hearing decision was rather embarrassed by his displayed ignorance of 42 CFR §400.203 and Article VI, Clause II of the United States Constitution, which is more commonly known as the “Supremacy Clause”. But perhaps my favorite “foolish” fair hearing decision of all time is one where the Department of Health concluded that the applicant/appellant’s daughter must be her Power of Attorney because documentation submitted in support of the Medicaid application indicated that she was present in the room with her mother during a medical exam (yes indeed, they were confusing a Health Care Proxy with a Power of Attorney).
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Don’t Take the Bait – 6 Timely Tips to Help Avoid Phishing eMails
Phishing emails are a common way for cybercriminals to steal important data from healthcare facilities. This article will discuss what phishing is, how to identify a phishing email, and how to protect your facility’s data from being stolen. We will also provide tips for avoiding phishing scams, the consequences of falling for a phishing scam, and how to report a phishing email.
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